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Management

Management

Have you lost your RAG with your improvement objectives?

At this time of year many businesses are reviewing and revising their improvement plans and business objectives. It is a natural time of year to do this and for many

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business objectives
Continuous Improvement

Business objectives: creating a master schedule

What are you business objectives? Whether you have formal business objectives, or not, every business has objectives. If you operate an ISO management system, are deploying Lean, or undertaken annual

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Management

How to stop small things becoming crises

This is one of the perennial management challenges, isn’t it? What is merely a small annoyance today, can become tomorrow’s disaster. We’ve all seen this happen. Let me give you a couple

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Management

The Strategic Improvement Loop has landed!

What is The Strategic Improvement Loop I hear you ask... Many of my clients, over the years, have asked me for help with implementing their strategic objectives. It's great helping a

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Management

Taking ownership of a process doesn’t have to kill your diary!

Amongst the many organisations I speak to there is one topic that crops up regularly. It is the topic of process ownership. There seems to be widespread confusion over what

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Continuous Improvement

Who has the highest standards in your business?

Re-starting initiatives is a real pain in the backside, isn't it? This often happens because things slip. You decide it would be better to do things a certain way, habits

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effective standard operating procedures
Management

A real world skills matrix rating system!

Do you use skills matrices in your business? If you do you'll know all about how useful they can be... Most businesses, in reality, will compile their skills matrix under duress and

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Kaizen

Effective Meeting Agenda: A Kaizen Opportunity

Effective meeting agendas are a vital management tool... When running a business process, standard meetings are a vital tool to use. But, what makes up an effective meeting agenda? Agenda points

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Kaizen

Building the team: What if everyone improved by 10%?

Building the team is one of the challenges of running a business process. Stopping to make things better is a double edged sword. If you aren't abundant with resources you

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